ABSTRACT
The article presents a research whose main objective was to understand the teacher's emotions in relation to the process of inclusive education and to the student in inclusion from the references of the Cultural-Historical Theory of Vygotsky. The study, qualitative in nature, was carried out with three teachers of the initial years of Elementary School from a municipal school on the outskirts of the Municipality of Curitiba. The analysis of the data was guided by the principles of Bardin’s Content Analysis (1977) and involved the use of structured and semi-structured interviews and the production of photographic records. The data were categorized according to the experiences of the participants as students, as teachers and in relation to the inclusion of students with special educational needs in the regular classrooms. The results point out, despite the presence of pleasant emotions such as joy and satisfaction, the predominance of unpleasant emotions related to inclusive teaching, such as insecurity, frustration and regret. The study indicates a greater appreciation of cognitive aspects, minimizing the importance of emotion in the process of school inclusion. The research reveals that the emotions have been devalued even by the teachers themselves who, unaware of them, deprive themselves of the possibility of using them as promoters of personal growth and transformation of teaching work.
Keywords:
Emotions; Teachers; School inclusion; Historical-Cultural Theory; Vygotsky